Top five plug-ins you should try out for your WooCommerce store in 2017

If you have an eCommerce store or are thinking of launching one in 2017, WooCommerce is a great choice to build your business with. There’s so many useful plug-ins for WooCommerce that you may not even be aware of. To help you out, we’ve listed 5 things you can try on your WooCommerce store this year to help your business grow and succeed:

Subscriptions are used on your WooCommerce store for allowing recurring payments. If you sell a physical or online product with a monthly or yearly subscription, this plug-in is a simple yet powerful way to set up payment.

How do you benefit?
A subscription-based model will allow you to capture more residual revenue—and all you have to do is ship the orders.

With the Facebook Tab plug-in you can sell the products on your WooCommerce store to your Facebook fans without them having to leave Facebook in order to make the purchase.

How do you benefit?

The plug-in uses your regular store to work, but you can set it up so that even the checkout process is done within Facebook. This means you can access Facebook users as potential buyers and your fans don’t even have to know it’s not Facebook they’re buying on.

There may be instances where your customer is not ready to buy, but would like to request a quite first. For example, maybe they want to buy in bulk and are interested in negotiating a sale price with you. Using the Request a Quote plug-in, there is an extra option on your WooCommerce store under the product listing page where customers can request a deal.

How do you benefit?
Rather than having to discuss different products, pricing and sales over the phone, this makes it easy for your customers to request a quote, and all you have to do is confirm the price and close the deal.

The Simple Auctions plug-in allows you to add extra functions to your WooCommerce store that give you the capability to run auctions, similar to eBay. With this plug-in, you can easily run one or more auctions at a time, including bid history and a countdown timer. There’s even a “My Auctions” section so bidders can keep track of their bids.

How do you benefit?

Don’t lose customers to eBay anymore. Instead, allow users to bid for your products in the same way they would on eBay in hopes of scoring a great deal!

With ERP integration you can connect your WooCommerce store with your ERP or accounting system (i.e. products by Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor, NetSuite, Intuit, SAP, etc.) with your WooCommerce store. Orders, inventory levels, shipping updates, and more, can all be passed back and forth seamlessly between your online store and accounting package.

How do you benefit?

An integration solution of this kind allows you to eliminate manual data entry back and forth between your online store and your back-end accounting system. You can increase the speed of data exchange, improving customer service efficiency. You can also avoid costly errors that are made a result of human error from manual data input. Not to mention, you’ll free up valuable time and resources to focus on other higher priority areas of your business.

“Integration has saved us at least 10 hours a week on just the fulfillment side. This new process has helped streamline the way our orders are inputted into Sage 100, and our team couldn’t be happier with the automation.
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Kyle Brandt, Wilson Electronics

“Life at Char-Griller is better now with eBridge integration.”

Nicholas Williams, Char-Griller

“If your business is at a point where you are doing a lot of manual data entry and you need automate processes, I would definitely recommend looking at eBridge Connections. Now that we have an integration solution in place, I can’t imagine operating without it.”

Eric Marquardt, LifeCORE Fitness

“So far so good. We are happy to see this [ShipStation integration] process up and running.”

Jason Barnell, DroneNerds

“eBridge's team understood what we needed and helped us every step of the way. They were always available for whatever we needed as we developed our new systems and helped bring us from idea to implementation to real world application. I would like to say thank you to the entire eBridge family for all the time and effort they put in to help us achieve our goals and highly recommend them to any business that sells online.”